My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE SHUTT, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Danvers; was born in Lebanon Co., Penn., Aug. 31, 1826; went to Berks Co. soon after, with his parents, and to Montgomery Co., Ohio, in the spring of 1842; there he obtained work on the canal at 75 cents a day, until he had a little over $20—the most money he had ever possessed; worked at whatever he could get to do, until 1852, when he went to La Fayette, Ind. He married Elizabeth Waltz, daughter of Elias and Rachel Waltz, of Montgomery Co., Ohio, Oct. 25, 1849. In the fall of 1860, they moved to Shelby Co., Ind., and bought his father’s farm; in September, 1864, they sold the farm and moved to Bloomington, Ill.; in the meantime followed farming; in March, 1869, he bought 200 acres in Sec. 1., Allin Township, where they now reside; they have had ten children — Cyrus W., born July 9, 1850 (he married Mary F. Rector Nov 1, 1877); William A., born Sept. 19, 1851; Elias B., Sept. 28, 1854; Sarah I., March 9, 1859; Oliver F., July 25, 1861; John E., Jan. 27, 1865; Lucetta J., born June 9, 1853, and died Sept. 6, 1854; Joseph A., born April 23, 1857, died Sept. 20, 1857; George W., born Jan. 8, 1864, died Feb. 10, 1864; Richard R., born Jan. 27, 1872, died July 10, 1872. They now own 210 acres of prairie and timber in Allin Township and 160 in Nebraska. Mr. Shutt, in his youth, never had any school advantages; never owned a slate until he bought one for his children, for whom he takes pleasure in providing the ways and means for a good education; nevertheless, he has applied himself in such ways as he could and made himself competent to transact all business that he is called upon to do.